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Ján Švehlík sa teší po strelenom góle vo finále ME vo futbale 1976 v Belehrade.

News digest: Champions at last! UEFA recognises Slovakia’s 1976 Euros victory

Artists demand SNG leaders quit, an AI startup has secured investment to transform dental education, and Slovenské Elektrárne inks uranium supply deal.

Yes, I’ve come again — and I’ll keep coming.

News digest: Back on the squares. Familiar chants, fresh anger.

Smer spins Charlie Kirk, Fico strings Brussels, and the interior minister’s “gift” fire engine draws fire.

News digest: Poland triggers NATO talks — Slovakia calibrates

PM Fico unapologetic on consolidation, first direct trains roll to Uzhhorod, mafia boss freed after police raid.

Finance Minister Ladislav Kamenický announces the third consolidation package on 9 September 2025.

News digest: Nothing beats a Kamenický package for wrecking your day

Arms booming, bills soaring, drones moonlighting, and Nepela unmasked — all in your Tuesday digest.

Finance Minister Ladislav Kamenický (Smer).

News digest: Finance minister’s fifth time lucky?

MPs to storm Foreigners’ Police in Bratislava, WWII bomb shakes the capital, ex-president rules out her political comeback.

Peter Kotlár, splnomocnenec vlády pre prešetrenie pandémie Covid-19.

News digest: Kotlár says Covid-19 vaccines are bad; the minister buys them anyway

Slovak student wins a junior Oscar, the first total lunar eclipse for six years is this Sunday, and funding for Slovakia's first modular satellite.

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre, and foreign leaders including Russia President Vladimir Putin, centre left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, centre right, walk to Tiananmen Rostrum ahead of a ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender in Beijing, China, on 3 September 2025.

News digest: Fico kicks Brussels, Zelensky lands in Slovakia

Slovak PM courts China, gas boss exits, and MP Radačovský’s Cyprus posting reshapes the coalition’s fragile majority.

Details of the reliquary.

News digest: Expert opinion on the Levoča bust revealed

Basic information about education in Slovakia for foreigners, Slovakia with little to celebrate when it comes to food security. Find out more in today’s digest.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre, walks with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, left, at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, on September 2, 2025.

News digest: Putin, Fico — and the frog in the well

Police officer’s sabotage charge dropped, coalition split over gambling reform, and volunteers rescue a hidden fortress.

Pupils at the primary school in Slovenský Grob near Bratislava on their first day of school.

News digest: Workers in Slovakia clock in on September 1 — for the first time in 32 years

Some storks swap migration for landfills, some politicians struggle to get from A to B without mishaps.

The Slovak president’s honour guard salutes at the memorial during the central commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising in Banská Bystrica on Thursday, 29 August 2024.

News digest: Defence Minister Kaliňák’s parties keep rolling — and costing

A New Zealander’s Lučenec story, a long-delayed kidnap trial, and a stargazing podcast.

PM Robert Fico during the press briefing after the government session in Senica.

News digest: Government prevents Slovak science chief from presenting vaccine findings

New arrivals in Bratislava Zoo, which municipality has the highest quality of life, and a restaurant review.

Veľkorozmerné Dielo Denisy Lehockej v SNG.

News digest: Art wars in the Slovak capital

Court backs Ukrainian in sabotage case, tram driver helps Swede in Bratislava, and Spain honours Slovak legend.

A hot summer day in Bratislava

News digest: Bratislava tops tourist charts – again, with foreigners outnumbering Slovaks

A lawyer was attacked by neo-Nazis, Slovaks join a collaborative pixel art map, and the Košice Region building its cinematic future.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó (L) and Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár attend the Visegrad 4 Business Conference in Hotel Marriott in Budapest, Hungary, 14 November 2024.

News digest: Slovakia and Hungary protest halt to drone-hit Russian oil supplies

Russia strikes Ukrainian town near Slovakia, Slovakia’s tax burden hits 63.5 percent of average wages, and Pride Košice 2025 Festival is here.

The Slovak Academy of Sciences

News digest: Kotlár wrong on vaccines, say scientists – time to shred that diploma? 

Kažimír’s defence dismissed, Záborská’s polarising legacy, and Slovakia pauses to remember the August 1968 invasion.

A selection of photos from the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.

News digest: Slovakia faces new referendum initiative on relations with Russia

Slovaks abroad build spaces to stay politically engaged, a new attraction in the Low Tatras, and the story how The Slovak Spectator began.

SNS leader Andrej Danko (l) and Tourism Minister Rudolf Huliak (r)

News digest: Four is the magic number – Danko wants Slovakia redrawn

Ombudsman v. PM Fico’s office in NGO law clash; dogs rattle politics 18 years apart; Tatras unveil their 100th waterfall.

Prime Minister Robert Fico, Defence Minister Robert Kaliňák (l) and Smer MP Tibor Gašpar.

News digest: Fico welcomes ‘standardisation’ with Russia, opposition talks of betrayal

A new educational trail to discover, the struggle to tackle homelessness in Slovakia, and a ban on open fire in Bratislava forests.

PM Robert Fico, Defence Minister Robert Kaliňák, Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár and Deputy Speaker Tibor Gašpar at their press conference, 15 August 2025, Bratislava.

News digest: Fico just accused his rivals of trying to ‘import chaos’ from Serbia

Festivals from Post Malone to potato pancakes; inflation bites; Orbán ally muscles into Slovak construction.

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